(Keith Thurman punches Jesus Soto Karass; photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) The best thing about this past weekend for many was simply that Adrien Broner got beat up. But the best thing that could happen as a result of it going forward is a meeting between Broner's conqueror, Marcos Maidana, and the man above, Keith […]

Welcome to The Queensberry Rules' annual year-end awards, starting today and continuing for one week. Here's how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Round of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final leg, which will finish early next week, is a […]

(Marcos Maidana, post-fight; photo credit: Esther Lin, Showtime) Adrien Broner was the future of American boxing until Saturday night on Showtime, when he ran into hard-ass Argentinian Marcos Maidana, who somehow overcame the pervasive influence of Golden Boy, adviser Al Haymon and the network that broadcast the fight to win a unanimous decision. And you […]

With the boxing year coming to a close, Father Christmas (AKA Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza) has one last present for boxing fans before they wake up on Dec. 25 to find their stockings filled with coal. Originally slated for pay-per-view but mercifully bumped down to regular premium cable, welterweights Adrien Broner and Marcos Maidana are set […]

(A triumphant Kelly Pavlik after stopping Taylor; photo credit: Ed Mulholland) It all made sense. Bernard Hopkins more or less created a new line in middleweight title management by defeating Keith Holmes and unifying two belts, but he waited to order his official “Middleweight Champion” stationary after he’d made Felix Trinidad contemplate his pugilistic existence. […]

(Guillermo Rigondeaux punches Joseph Agbeko, not that anyone saw it; credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) Nobody expected Guillermo Rigondeaux to do great numbers as a headliner on HBO going head to head with a card over at Showtime featuring bigger names, but then, nobody probably expected this weekend's bout to set an all-time low for […]

Who knew that Disney movies had such badass characters? Maybe they could make an animated movie about Marcos Maidana. It could be called “The Ballad Of El Chino.” I’d watch, but I guess it might scare the children. Apart from The Ballad Of El Chino (AKA his welterweight fight with Adrien Broner), there’s a fair […]

Some boxers have a funny way of falling down or getting rocked, like Zab Judah, say. Another is a second boxer from this past weekend, the breakdancing Austin Trout. He should swerve into it: Drop the "No Doubt" nickname that people were making fun of Saturday as the Erislandy Lara bout slipped out of control […]

(Those gluttons strewn about as Dante and Virgil continue their stroll are us boxing fans; via) Just like our instinctive holiday gluttony this time of year, we’ve feasted on so much late-year boxing that there’s barely any room for more. Over the weekend, we had Paulie Malignaggi winning a decision from Zab Judah, Guillermo Rigondeaux […]

(Guillermo Rigondeaux, center, stands victorious and untouched; photo credit: Chris Farina/Top Rank) All “names” prevailed on the final HBO boxing card of 2013, ending a very strong late year run for the network on a lower note than perhaps was intended when put together. At the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, Guillermo Rigondeaux left no […]

(Paulie Malignaggi, left, lands a right hand on Zab Judah; photo credit: Showtime/Golden Boy Promotions) Paulie Malignaggi was excellent Saturday night on Showtime and Zab Judah was shit. In the battle of Brooklyn, Malignaggi made Judah resemble the Nets. It was a card where the opening bout, the draw between Sakio Bika and Anthony Dirrell, […]

(Felix Sturm stands over a discombobulated Darren Barker, left; photo credit: AP) The grim prospect of facing Gennady Golovkin – Kazakhstan’s modern-day take on Grendel’s mother – is one that influences his middleweight contemporaries in myriad ways. Faced with the ultimatum of either boxing Golovkin or finding himself an alternative 160 lb. world titlist by […]

(J'Leon Love uppercuts Lajuan Simon; credit: Stephanie Trapp, Showtime) Floyd Mayweather-promoted fighters got showcases Friday on ShoBox, a Showtime show once meant to show how ready prospects were for the bigtime. This is the price a network pays for tying their fortunes too directly to one boxer's earning appeal and Q Score. Each "TMT" (ugh) […]

CHAMPIONS

The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board champions are the true lineal champions of each division, like in earlier years of boxing when there was only one champion per division. For more on lineal champions vs. titleholders, click here.